14th April 2021 - Brown Bag Seminar
Presentation Title:
"Large Scale International Educational Assessment: Uses, Limitations and Counter-Intuitive Findings"
Topic:
In the last two decades, policy makers, researchers, and teachers have paid great attention to large scale international student assessment programs such as PISA. Using results from these programs, we would discuss some counter-intuitive findings, limitations of the research design, and other comparability of scale issues.
Bio:
Kit-Tai Hau is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Education Psychology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a close collaborator of the IPPE group. He is member of the OECD PISA Strategic Development Group, Technical Advisory Group, Questionnaire Expert Group, and Hong Kong national-program-manager. Recently he also joined the TIMSS Questionnaire Item Review Committee.
